[scikit-learn] Fairness Metrics

[Andreas Mueller]

Would be great for sklearn-contrib, though!

On 10/29/18 1:36 AM, Feldman, Joshua wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there's any interest in adding fairness metrics to 
> sklearn. Specifically, I was thinking of implementing the metrics 
> described here:
>
> https://dsapp.uchicago.edu/projects/aequitas/
>
> I recognize that these metrics are extremely simple to calculate, but 
> given that sklearn is the standard machine learning package in python, 
> I think it would be very powerful to explicitly include algorithmic 
> fairness - it would make these methods more accessible and, as a 
> matter of principle, demonstrate that ethics is part of ML and not an 
> afterthought. I would love to hear the groups' thoughts and if there's 
> interest in such a feature.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Josh
>
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